Torment Quotes
361 quotes by 286 authors
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Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the…
— Vaclav Havel
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In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
— Richard Baxter
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It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense…
— Kay Ryan
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Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even…
— John R. Rice
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking…
— Elizabeth Drew
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
— Claude Bernard
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
— Gautama Buddha
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
— Teresa of Avila
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Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years…
— Wade Horn
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... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I…
— Christer Kihlman
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If fortune torments me, hope contents me.
— William Shakespeare
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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that…
— Julio Cortazar
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
— Alfred de Musset
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
— Danielle Steel
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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be…
— David McCullough
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
— Andrew Solomon
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As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some…
— Angus Wilson
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I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
— Don Meyer
Who Wrote These Torment Quotes
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